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February 19, 2013 — “Mod Bods: Modernism and the Body” is the theme of the
University of Wyoming Department of English 2013 Graduate Student Symposium
Feb. 22-23. All sessions, free and open to the public, will be held in Rooms 8
and 9 of the UW College of Business Building.

Keynote speakers are Ronald Schuchard, the Goodrich C. White
Professor of English at Emory University, and Michelle Jarman, director of the
Wyoming Institute for Disabilities in UW’s College of Health Sciences.

Schuchard’s talk, “The Man Who Suffers and the Mind Which
Creates in The Waste Land,” is Friday at 5 p.m. He teaches courses in
20th century British, Irish and Anglophone literature and is the author of
numerous studies of modern authors, particularly T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats. His
new book, "The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic
Arts," was published by Oxford University Press in 2008.

Jarman will discuss "Ungrounded Bodies -- Contingent
Minds" Saturday at 1 p.m. Her
research explores productive connections between disability studies, race
studies and gender theory in a variety of disability representations in 20th
and 21st century U.S. literature and culture. Jarman’s essays have appeared in
journals such as "MELUS" (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United
States), "Review of Disability Studies," "Journal of Literary
and Cultural Disability Studies," "Feminist Formations" and
several literary and disability studies anthologies.

Photo:Author and educator Ronald Schuchard speaks Friday at 5 p.m.
in the UW College of Business Building. (Emory University)